The Plattsmouth Journal
: Published Semi-Weekly
IV. A. MAT1CH,
Entered at the rostoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second-class matter
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In order to reward an honest
and faithful official, the city
should increase the salary of
Johnny Fitzpat rick, the ellieient
night watchman, to at least ten
dollars more on the month.
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rt is frequently averred that
were such laws as the Alberts'
law submitted to a vote of the
jieople they would not carry.
California is to give us a demon
stration of the truth or falseness
of the claim. ' It will submit just
such a law at the iient regular
election.
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W. J. Bryan, secretary of
state, is quite ilrnily persuaded
that the manufacturers of armor
and of battleships and of gun
powder are war patriots for
the wampum there is in it. And
tells them so right to their face.
There never was a lime when Mr.
Bryan did not fully understand
what he was talking about, and
lie never lacked for language to
make his expressions fully un
derstood. :o:-
11 is reported that Los Angeles
and Topeka are going to put
"plain clothes" Women in their
police department, and the ques
tion is, will it pay? Springfield,
Mass., has had policewomen for
somo lime and found that it paid
big in keeping down immorality
in young and unprotected girls.
The policewomen are really u
moral force, and women's or
ganisations aro a unit in saying
that it is only a question of time
until all cities have policewomen.
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The fly is the creature of the
junk heap, the garbage can and
of all such unmentionable things.
It is from these vile places he
comes as he sails gaily into your
unscreened windows. lie enters
the human habitation loaded
lown with the most deadly
microbes. He is a microbe sponge.
You can remove flic garbage can
and the dung pile. This will help
some. Then you can have a
swatter in each room of your
home and swat him every time
an opportunity is alTorded.
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I'latlsinoul h was a little - too
late in securing the Omaha High
school cadets fo spend their out
ing at the rille range near this
city. We are informed that a
letler was received in this city a
month ago from the boys in re
gard to coming here, but from
some cause no at lent ion was paid
to it. Then was the time to have
extended the invitation. They go
to Missouri Valley, Iowa, this
year. Maybe if we take the mat
ter up in time we can get them
nest year.
MR. HENRY PECK AND.MS FAMILY AFFAIRS
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Let us be hopeful and cheer
ful, the rains will soon be over
and the farmers will be the gain
ers thereby.
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The Adams Express company
will no olnger accept liquor
shipments in less than four
gallon packages and over to
dealers outside the state. This
order is now in effect. The Webb
law ( has evidently frightened the
express companies, and they don't
care lo take any risks.
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Now that the exact geographi
cal center of the United States has
been established in Smith county,
Kansas, there is some curiosity fo
know what the government in
tends to do with it. Some years
ago Central City, Nebraska, was
considered the center, but it is
there yet.
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They can talk panic till their
throats are sore and it won't
scare Woodrow Wilson, nor in the
least deter him from doing his
duty, lie will attend to the panic
business, for he knows just where
the cry slarted, and there's just
where il will end, but not the way
the insiiualors would have it.
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There are many people in this
section of the country who have
known John J Irish, at one time
designated the "Oreat Iowa
Democrat." He lived in Iowa a
great many years and finally re
moved lo California, where ho has
since resided. He is always post
ed on questions of importance'.
He declares that the legislation
adopted by the California solons
violates the trealy, drags our
honor in the dust and leaves us
stripped of good faith and cloth
ed in dishonor. Less land is
owned and less land leased by
Japs in California now I ban four
years ago. The Japanese are
steadily leaving. In the last two
years the number decreased i,
033. It fs plain, therefore, thai
we are being pushed into grossly
insulting a friendly nation by
sheer lying. The fact seems to
be hat the men engaged in build
ing battleships are intensely
anxious to spread a war scare,
This talk of a contlict between
'Japan and the United States is the
'same as that between dermany
ami England, between Oermany
and trance, between England and
Russia. The public is exploited
and every nation is taxed to serve
the purpose of the steel magnates.
II is I he most gigantic fake that,
was ever organized and worked.
Since there is no chance to em
broil the United States with any
European power the steel fellows
work up this feeling against
Japan.
lf the nth; range will not be in
shape for the Omaha High sehuol
cadets, why not secure the
Straight place? We should not
spare any effort to get these
young fellows to come to Platts
mouth. There will be about 500,
including an excellent band, which
will give a concert upon the street
every evening during their stay.
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The more one reads of these
efforts by the European powers to
declare for other nations what
new borders shall be established
for them; of the intrigues and
"politics" of territory grabbing;
and of the commercial reasons
therefore the more one becomes
convinced that America's best
slogan is "Americi for Americans
and hands off of all other na-
I HOIS.
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The Fourth of July is rapidly
approaching. What is the com
mittee doing about the celebra
tion? Many have asked us if
we were going to have anything
doing 'in IMattsiuouth. Let the
committee make some sort of an
announcement of what they in
tend to have to entertain the
people on the great natal day.
It seems the country people are
arranging to come to Platts
mouth. :o;
Young women are earning all
the way from i to $8 per week at
Omaha, doing housework, the
maintenance items of board and
odging, as a matter of course,
being "thrown in." Evidently
there is not so much demand for
a minimum wage law for girls in
Omaha as there is for the survival
of the fittest; for, 'obviously, a
girl in a fairly good Omaha home,
with only one mistress, has an
easier place than a girl behind a
counter at $0 to $8 without those
other very material perquisites.
If, then, she can eliminate only
moderately the slavery to fashion
she really needs have lillle fear of
an.y other slavery. Grand Island
Independent. ;
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Trouble between Japan and the
United Stales has come from the
Jingoes who have been fanning
the war talk. Among these is
Major Henreicli Werner of the
German army, who declares that
afler having lived leu years in
San Francisco and making money,
lie is going home to Oermany to
live. Hut he says that the mobil
ization of the small army has
been going on secretly in Cali
fornia for years. In isolated parts
of California which he visited in
his automobile be found small
companies of Japs spending their
noon hour and their evenings in
drilling. Even those engaged in
menial work have organized small
survey parlies and made maps of
every spot in California and the
information they have gained is
of priceless value lo them.
The difference between valor
and discretion is Ihusly explain
ed: If you travel from here to
California' without tipping the
porter, that would be valor. And
if you came back by a different
route, that would be discretion.
Twenty. five editors from dif
ferent parts of Nebraska oc
cupied the pulpits of the Omaha
churches last Sunday. The Kear
ney Democrat adds, "that was
perhaps one of the hottest days
the devil ever experienced in
Omaha."
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Will Chris (Jrunther become
deputy revenue collector? That
appears to be a decidedly in
teresting question among the
democrats of Nebraska. If he
does not, we shall always think
he ought to. If there is a man in
the state deserving of such ap
pointment, that man is Chris
(Irunther, if services lo his party
is any criterean.
In the disposition of patronage
by the government at Washing
ton, I hose in whom this power
exists want to proceed very care
fully, and be positive the offices
are placed in the hands of relia
ble democrats. An applicant's
record as a faithful worker in his
party should be some recom
mendation to the powers that be.
This is the proper policy to pur
sue in Nebraska, as well as in all
other states, if the party expects
lo succeed in the future. There
should be no "shenanigan" play
ed, and the faithful democrats are
on guard to see that there is none
played in Nebraska.
The Iowa aviator who was con
victed of a serious crime and sen
lenced to life imprisonment, is
showing some of the manly spirit
at, least. He had contracts for
(lights this season which his
manager says will pay him five
thousand dollars. He asked the
courts to be allowed to carry out
the summer's programs that he
might earn the money for his
family before he enters the
gloomy confines of bis prison
home. The request has been
granted and during the coming
summer months he will daily risk
his life that his family may be
provided for after he retires to
his living death.
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Too much prosperity has ruin
ed Jack Johnson, the nigger
pugilist. He has been found
guilty on seven counts of violat
ing the Mann act, and his chances
of going lo the penitentiary for a
long term of imprisonment are
exceedingly good. Johnson's head
became duly inflamed with his
easy victory over Jim Jeffries. He
set up a saloon in Chicago that
speedily became the resort of the
tough element.. What gave the
greatest offense, however, was his
marrying u white woman, and
when she killed herself, finding
the intolerable conditions of her
life with a nigger insupportable,
he formed another alliance with a
while girl named Lucile Cameron.
Public indignation was so aroused
that he was prosecuted, and of
fenses against the law were easy
to find. The punishment of tho
nigger is just, and he will pass
from, the history of pugilism, a
field in which he should never
have been allowed to enter to do
battle against white men.
The commission form of gov
ernment may be all right, but the
recall feature of (he law seem-,
to be one of great trouble in some
of the cities that have adopted it.
In some places the people are get
ting very tired of that sort of
government.
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The threatened panic from the
eastern gang that has heretofore
run this government, is not wor
rying the western people very
much just at present. A man
with iron nerve is at the head of
this government, and his name is
Woodrow Wilson. They will find
hint the leader.
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The war scare on account of
the alien law in California seems
lo be decreasing daily. The
Japanese are an enlightened race
of people and are no more
anxious for war than is the Unit
ed States government. The only
people in this country who would
like to see a war are those who
would receive mamiuoulh sums
for building war vessels. And
these two countries do not intend
to gratify simply their desires.
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It would seem that Nebraska
has quite a number of applicants
for foreign positions, and we
notice among a dozen or more
mentioned for various positions
the name of I). 0. Dvvyer of this
city for minister to Siberia. The
Journal believes Mr. Dvvyer will
not only prove a good man for
this place, but any other that
might be ottered to him by the ad
ininilsration. Such appointments
will no doubt bo made by direction
of Mr. Bryan, and the Nebraska
democrats can depend upon re
ceiving their share of such ap
pointments, and no more. In
dealing out these positions we
trust Mr. Bryan will not forget
our friend Dvvyer.
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Plaltsmouth is getting more
compliments from outsiders I ban
many of our people have any idea.
Every stranger who cpmes to
town remarks about the city's
thrifty appearance, and there is
good cause for such remarks.
The improvements that are being
made all over the city in the
residence sections, as well as in
the business section denotes
thrift and prosperity. The old
board sidewalks are a thing of
the past, and cement walks are
taking their place. ' The energy
of our business men is also
noticeable lo a great extent. They
are taking more pride in fixing up
and arranging their stores more
on the order of metropolitan
establishments. It makes one feel
proud to hear our farmer friends
remark that the old town is com
ing right to the front. They also
nole, with considerable pleasure
loo, that their county seal, town
is one in which they can feel
proud. Let us keep tip the good
work. Live business men make a
live town; they can soon get rid
of the drones and knockers by
forging right onward, paying no
attention to those who are not
worthy of such notice as good
citizens generally receive.
Perhaps if California had done
as the legislature of Arizona has
done in excluding all aliens from
owning land, the Japs would not
feel so bad over the action of
California. When one looks at
this matter in the proper light it
would appear that California
should have made the law to ex
clude all aliens, no matter of what
nationality.
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If you have one of the aew
nickels you had belter keep one
as a souvenir as it is understood
no more are to be issued. Slot
machine manufacturers are find
ing fault with the nickel, claiming
it cannot be used with facility in
their devices. However, it has
been found that the new coin can
be slipped into a saving deposit
without inconvenience, and using
it that way is a very commendable
alternative.
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The immigration at our eastern
ports presents many grave prob
lems, and it has been deemed ex
pedient to place many restric
tions on the individuals who pre
sent themselves for admission
into our country. When we wel
come foreign immigrants it is on
the supposition that they will
make desirable citizens, taking
their place and doing their part in
the development of this country.
We want no others.
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The world is getting belter. We
have believed thai a long time,
and every now and then we pick
up some new point 'in confirma
tion of our opinion, which makes
us. feel good and be more opti
mistic than ever. Just now we
have been looking over the elec
tion returns in municipal elec
tions all over the country. With
a good deal of satisfaction we
note that even in .the cities where
the commission form of govern
ment has not eliminated political
party lines, these lines are being
forgotten and the l ien elected aref
about half and half democrat and
republican, with tvery now and
then a man who does not claim
close affiliation with either party.
In these reports we see the ad
vance of the city voters to the
point where a few good men on a
ticket cannot carry a lot of bad
men into office with them. The
voters are doing their own choos
ing, and picking the men, not
their politics. It will be some
time yet, perhaps, but the day will
come when Ihis same system will
reach out to county, state and
even national politics. We are
not arguing that political prin
ciples should be forgotten, or that
it is not right to consider what a
man is going to stand for in the
way of principles when he gels in
office. This knowledge is neces
sary lo judge of the fitness of the
man to represent the ideas and
interests of the voters. But we
do believe that when the American
people begin lo demand something
more of a man than agreement on
political ideas better men will be
sent inio office, from Hie White
house clear down to the township
road overseer or the city dog
pelter. By Gross